The purpose of this API is to fetch aliases for parcels and scanning them.

Content

[ 1.1 Setup ] [ 1.2 Environments / endpoints ] [ 1.3 Authentication ] [ 1.4 Making a request ] [ 2 Alias ] [ 2.1 Response ] [ 2.2 Examples ] [ 2.3 Error handling ]

Setup

	Example	Description

	Example	Description
Username (see Authentication section)	wsfoobar	A valid username.
Password (see Authentication section)	a-very-very-long-password	A password matching given username.

The user is a web service user
The user has access to the web service cargostream.external.scanner
The user has access to the station specified in the request

Environments / endpoints

TEST PATCH	`https://staging-ws.di.no/ws/json/scanner/v-1/alias`
PRODUCTION PATCH	`https://ws.di.no/ws/json/scanner/v-1/alias`

Authentication

This endpoint requires the user to be authenticated. Refer to the documentation here for more information on how to obtain a valid token to use in your request.

Making a request

Clients using this API should not fail if new optional fields are added to the API. If a new field is added to the request or response on a later stage, existing clients should handle this in a way such as they just ignore the field.
The trackingReference must be already known to the system (created by e.g. the Parcel Booking API)
Do not share personal or sensitive information in this API.

Alias

Used to get the alias for a parcel without performing a full scan.

Does not create a scan event
Does not trigger any integrations (activations, etc)
Does create a seperate alias.retrieved event

Request header

Key	Value

Key	Value
Content-Type	application/json

Request body

Name	Type	Example	Mandatory	Description

Name

Type

Example

Mandatory

Description

trackingReference

string

370724723337566136

R-12345

The tracking reference or return code you want an alias for

stationId

integer

1

The id of the station to get the alias at

scanMode

string

OUTGOING

INCOMING

Specifies whether to perform a outgoing or incoming (return) scan.

Response

Name	Type	Example	Description

Name	Type	Example	Description
trackingReference	string	370724762337566136	The tracking reference of parcel you get an alias for
stationId	integer	1	The id of the station you get the alias from
scanMode	string	`OUTGOING` `INCOMING`	The scan mode of the scan
aliasDate	date	2023-02-28	The date the alias was generated for. Currently we only support generating alias for the current date.
alias	string	A4	The actual alias for the parcel

Examples

Request

POST https://staging-ws.di.no/ws/json/scanner/v-1/alias
{
    "trackingReference": "370724762337566136",
    "stationId": 1,
    "scanMode": "OUTGOING"
}

Response

Error handling

API requests that result in errors will return an appropriate HTTP status code to help you identify the type of error. You can use the table below to understand what each code means. og search online with the HTTP status code. The HTTP error keys used are based on the standard, and therefore available online (Tips to search “HTTP code XXX”)

In addition to HTTP status there may be more details in the errorKey field. Error Keys can be added at a later stage, clients should handle this as well as an empty value for errorKey.

HTTP Status code	Text	Description

HTTP Status code	Text	Description
400	Client or Validation Error	The request body/query string is not in the correct format.
401	Authentication Failure	Indicates that the Authorization header is either missing or incorrect. You can learn more about the Authorization header here.
403	Access denied	This indicates that the agent whose credentials were used in making this request was not authorized to perform this API call. It could be that you do not have access to the station you provided in your request. If you believe this is a mistake, please reach out to your contact so it can be rectified.
405	Method not allowed	This API request used the wrong HTTP verb/method. For example a PUT request will result in this error.
4xx	Client error	Generally receiving an error code that starts with 4 indicates that the client needs to change something.
500	Unexpected Server Error	Oops! This may indicates an error on our side. Please try again, if the error continues notify your contact person

Error response

In addition to the HTTP status code, most errors will also return a response body that contains more information to help you debug the error. A sample error response is shown below. The format of the error response body is explained after the example.

Sample error

Field	Description

Field	Description
statusCode	The HTTP code associated with this error.
errorKey	A machine parseable error code.
errorMap	Additional details pertaining to the error.

DI Services

Cargostream Alias API